Many have heard of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s 1953 transvestite drama Glen or
Glenda, but few have seen it in its entirety. For those who know it only
by reputation or from isolated snippets seen in documentaries, Englewood
Entertainment has brought this beauty out on video.

In Glen or Glenda, the filmmaker himself plays the broad-shouldered, masculine
Glen, who struggles with his secret life of blond tresses and angora sweaters.
Unable to tell his horse-faced fiancée about his bewigged second
persona, Glen suffers through expressionistic nightmares until a somber
fellow transvestite and a humorless shrink set him on the straight and
narrow.

Glen or Glenda is typical of Ed Wood films: purple dialogue, cheapo production,
a drug-addled Bela Lugosi barking incoherently on the sidelines, and a
heavy air of philosophical introspection mixed with nutty pseudoscience.
Yet
the film, in many ways, is shockingly ahead of its time: A brief yet completely
mature sequence of a thwarted gay liaison and the repeated use of the word
homosexual are highly unusual for a 1953 production.

Some have unfairly labeled Glen or Glenda one of the worst films ever made.
Nothing is further from the truth: This eccentric and erratic little flick
is much too intriguing and entertaining to earn the mark of the skunk.